What Makes You Alive
Levels of Organization
Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Grab Bag
100

All living things must be made of _____.

What are cells?

100

A herd of wild horses living around Washoe lake would be considered what part in the levels of organization?

What is an Population?

100

Step in the water cycle in which the sun heats liquid water and it rises to the atmosphere.

What is evaporation?

100

The step of the carbon cycle we as humans most directly participate in on a daily basis.

What is cellular respiration?
100

Abiotic or Biotic: A Flower

What is biotic?

200

What is a characteristic that helps an organism better survive in its surroundings? 

Think short/long neck giraffes

What is adaptation?

200

Our planet and everything on it is the ________.

What is the biosphere? 

200

Step in the water cycle in which water condenses into clouds before precipitating again.

What is condensation?

200

The step of the carbon cycle plants most directly participate in.

What is photosynthesis?

200

Abiotic or Biotic: Sunlight

What is abiotic?

300

What is the study of both biotic and abiotic things in the environment? 

What is Ecology?

300

The grasslands, tundra, desert, and rainforest are all examples of _____.

What are biomes?

300

Step in the water cycle in which water rises back into the atmosphere from plants.

What is transpiration?

300

The step of the carbon cycle in which fossil fuels are burned and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

What is combustion?

300

The organism required for each stage of the nitrogen cycle to occur.

What is bacteria?

400

DNA and RNA are examples of this criteria of life.

What is genetic material?

400

All of the fish, crabs, and seaweed that live in a specific coral reef make up a ______.

What is a community? 

400

Deforestation, cutting down massive amounts of trees, most directly effects this step in the water cycle.

What is transpiration?

400

Humans increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when we drive cars through the process of ___________.

What is combustion?

400

The name for the type of organisms that return carbon and nitrogen to the soil from dead material.

What are decomposers?

500

When you eat food to obtain energy, you are demonstrating this criteria for life.

What is metabolism?

500

All the fish, crabs, and seaweed that live in a coral reef together, as well as the sand and rock in this same area make up an ________.

What is an ecosystem?

500

Paving, laying cement, over soil to create a new shopping center most directly effects these TWO steps in the water cycle.

What are runoff and infiltration?

500

This gas, in our atmosphere, is decreased as plants carry out photosynthesis.

What is carbon dioxide?

500

Step in the nitrogen cycle in which bacteria "fix" nitrogen from the air or water into a form plants can use.

What is nitrogen fixation?